Priorities set by popular culture, we are controlled by clocks,datebooks, deadlines. Seeking to satisfy standards we don'tset or understand, we can't spare time for what's really importantin our own lives, terrified we will lose our spot on the merry-go-round.

The best things in life are neglected while we scurry to make more moneyto buy more stuff to impress more people that we don't even know.

Stop.

Be still.

Our life here is short, too short to be spent foolishly.

We pray for direction, but can't hear when He answers throughour shroud of commotion.

Calm. Down.

Listen.

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among thenations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10